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Ohio State to launch quantum MS/PhD program with funding from the National Science Foundation

An interdisciplinary team at The Ohio State University has received $3M from the National Science Foundation to support the launch of a new graduate program in quantum information…

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Cochran Co-Principal Investigator on NSF AGEP Grant

The National Science Foundation has awarded funding to an AGEP grant proposal, Inclusive Graduate Programs: An AGEP (Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate) Pilot in…

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Undergraduate Student Lounge Grand Reopening

Attention Department of Physics students, faculty, and staff: the newly renovated Undergraduate Student Lounge is now open! That’s right, the Undergraduate Student Lounge is back and boasts a…

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Using supernovae to study neutrinos’ strange properties

In a new study, researchers have taken an important step toward understanding how exploding stars can help reveal how neutrinos, mysterious subatomic particles, secretly interact with…

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Brandenburg selected for DOE's Early Career Research Program

Daniel Brandenburg, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics, has been selected as one of 93 scientists across the country to receive funding from the U.S. Department of…

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Department of Energy Announces $28.5 Million for LaserNetUS

The Department of Energy’s Office of Science announced $28.5 million for LaserNetUS to advance discovery science and inertial fusion energy.

LaserNetUS is North America's high…

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Physics Phun at The Ohio State Fair!

The Department of Physics is being represented at The Ohio State Fair this year through amazing experiments and lots of pfun presented by Christine Jackson, Harold Whitt and department volunteers…

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Ohio State awarded $1M grant from US Department of Education to create first intercity quantum network within the state

The Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering (CQISE) will be the administrative home for a $1 million, three-year congressionally directed…

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How an essential class of proteins can access blocked genes

Research shows how ‘pioneer factors’ function as master regulators of genes from yeast to humans

 

Genetic information contained within DNA has to be read by specific proteins that…